It is still not possible to use D on debian/ubuntu

[Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d]

On Fri, 2017-01-13 at 18:56 -0800, Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d
wrote:
[…]
> And why on earth does having to download the package from dlang.org
> rather
> than getting it from the official Debian or Fedora repos make dmd not
> practically usable on those distros? Sure, it would be nice if they
> were in
> the official repos, but that doesn't mean that it doesn't work or
> isn't a
> completely viable option on those distros.

Because it involves downloading packages and running your own local
repository from which to install.

For Debian there is D-Apt which is a reasonable half way house (*).
Actually the only house given the licencing problems with DMD. For
Fedora there is nothing. The enthusiasm displayed for trying to do a
Fedora equivalent of D-Apt when I proposed it was so undewhelming, I
gave up even starting.

(*) It should be the only way of getting the packages, replacing the
hosting of files on dlang.org.

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